Well guys, I'm going to try to recall the events as closely to reality as possible, if you give it a read I welcome any and all helpful feedback.
Approached and opened a male specialty shop employee as part of my training---they sell scented hand lotion among other things, had a good 5 minute chat, then I brought up wanting to see another girl who worked at the place a few weeks ago.
I tell him I don't remember her name, only vaguely what she looked like (she was a HB5). He mentions there's a girl working here right now, she's on break. We lean over a corner and see the girl---very pretty, HB8 or 8.5, she's just sitting and chilling. I think "ok now it's on", and I wave her over.
She comes over, I give her the solid 5-8 second eye contact before she breaks it while pretending to examine her to see if she was the girl who was working the other day. I get IOI's immediately, she's smiling and even starts running her hand down the side of my arm (oh god thank you for inventing dumbbells) after I touch her on the arm.
I am pretty direct the whole time about my intentions to the other girl: I tell them I wanted to talk to her again and that she was interesting. The guy tells me she has a boyfriend, and I tell him "oh that's ok, I like her, not her boyfriend." At this point the HB8 laughs and says "wow I like that! you're pretty upfront about this!" and gives me a mini-hug. (Need analysis on this part guys, should I have negged her on the kino, should I have interpreted this as an IOI or shit test, what should I have said?)
Well I smile and she asks me to describe the employee. I jokingly describe her exactly like the HB8 (she has a couple of piercings on her face), comment that she has a "great smile", she gets the joke and keeps smiling and laughing. (Here I start to get nervous a bit. Damn, my old enemy comes back. The muscles on my face start to twitch a little, maybe from me smiling/laughing too much. I look away and it gets a little better. Analysis?)
I then get a huge IOI. I ask the two what their names are. I did not hear clearly the name she gives me, and when I ask her to repeat it, she spells it out. (It's actually a boyish name, think maybe I should have teased her for that?)
We transition into the color of her eyes somehow---I did not initiate the transition, I believe it was an offhand remark by the male employee who was now feeling a bit left out. Anyhow, I tell her to look at me again (is this too much/repetitive?) for a while while I try and see what color they are. I tell her and she smiles.
After that I tell her I need to take her picture so I don't confuse her with the HB5. She declines and says she's shy. (Dammit I shoulda called her on that and teased her, cause she's not shy. Maybe run the trust routine. Analysis guys?)
Finally I realize the conversation's probably been going on for 15 minutes. FTC needs to be put in. Two things hit me then: 1) I had received tons of IOI's from the HB8, and 2) I was not going to close. My mind was blank for some reason, we had a pretty good connection by then but the words didn't come.
So, having read that, what do you guys think? How should I have handled this differently in the end to close? Be honest and forward, I appreciate compliments but I crave criticism---I can learn more from the latter than the former.
